Casket



june 26, 1923.

W. J. RILEY GASKET Filed July 1'7 1922 Y, f hm w .W

lietented ulhlnne 26, i923. l

WILLWI J. RILEY, @E ST. LUIS, IlISSOUB/I.

GASKET.

Application filed July 17, i922. Serial No. 575,584.

To all whom t may concern.' Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmental sec-tional 30 Be it known that VILIJAM J. RILEY, a. elevation of the joint between the body of citizen of the United States of America, rethe casket and the lid or cbver. siding at St. Louis, State of Missouri, has Numeral 4f designates the body portion 5 invented certa-in new and useful lmprovewhich is made of one piece of opaque glass ments in Gaskets, ofwhich the following is in the conventional casket formation. Nu- 35 a, specification. merel 5 designates a plate glass lid or cover rThe object of my invention is to manufac which has its edges beveled as bestshown at ture a casket in which the body portion will (5 in Fig. 2 and, by preference is transparbe made of one piece'of opaque glass, and ent. Tflhen the lid 5 is placed in the posiin which the lid or cover will be made of tion shown in the figures the upper surface 40 plate glass, and in which the lid or cover is Hush with the sides of the body portion can be permanently fused to the body porot' the casket. Fusing of the lid withv the tion of the casket. A further object is to sides of the body portion is shown by the make a light permanent casket Whichvcan cross-section in Fig. 3. i

be easily and cheaply made and which when What I claim and mean to secure by Let- 45 in position will be impervious to moisture, ters Patent' is Y heat, etc. y A casket having an opaque monolithic llith this andv other objects in View, my body portion and transparent plate glass invention has relation to certain novel eacover, the edges o the plate glass cover betures of construct-ion and arrangement of ing beveled and the upper edges of the body 50 parts as will be hereinafter more fully deportion being beveled permitting the lid Vor scribed, pointed out in the claim and illuscover' to be fused to the body portion so trated in the drawings i-n Which- 1 that the-'surface of the lid or cover Will'be Fig. l is. a perspective View of a casketV flush lWiththe sides of the body portion.

with the lid or cover in position, and En testimony whereof l axmy signature.

Fig. 2 is e 'longitudinal section of the casket vylith the lid or cover in position, and y WILLIAM JL RILEY. in Whic 

